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Dahab Plastics Co – Gearing Up for Consulting Presentation

November 22, 2010

On Sunday we had a conference call with my group for our final presentation in Consultative Processes class. This is the second of the group projects in the class. The first group project was on preparing and presenting Consulting Proposal for Kacey Fine Furniture. I re-read the case before the group discussion, Dahab Plastics Co, and it seems [...]

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Spring Term Classes – Online Onslaught at GW MBA

November 20, 2010

Just about two weeks ago I was writing about the survey conducted by the MBA administration at GWU about offering of the online classes. At that time I thought that this was just testing the waters with the students and actual introduction of the online classes was a long way from being implemented. Boy, was [...]

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Swamped with MBA Assignments

November 9, 2010

Update 5/7/2011. I have published a business case analysis for Ellen Moore (A): Living and Working in Korea. This week is going to be really brutal. I will have to pay for a little relaxation I had over the past weekend. I had some family and friends time and did not have enough time to [...]

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Online Electives in Part-time MBA at GWU

November 4, 2010

Update on introduction of online classes for Spring 2011 term at GWU part-time MBA. A couple weeks ago I received invitation from part-time MBA office at GW University to fill out a short survey. The questions were around the topic of offering some electives online. Basically, they were trying to gauge what portion of the electives the students would be willing [...]

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GMAT Deja Vu – with Compliments from Beat the GMAT

November 2, 2010

Update 11/19/2010. All the codes for Premium access to BTG Practice questions have been claimed already. Last week I received invitation from the Beat The GMAT (BTG) founder, Eric, to review the new Beat the GMAT Practice Questions. Admittedly, GMAT is far from being on my priorities list with all the classes I am taking [...]

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Blink, the Power of Priming and Financial Markets Final Grade

October 31, 2010

As the second module started this week, I had my class in Financial Management, which is the continuation of the Financial Markets class I had in the first fall Module at GW MBA. The same professor is teaching this class as the previous one, so we were given our final exam papers back to review. [...]

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Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks – Business Cases Analysis Update

October 28, 2010

As I was planning, I keep uploading write-ups of business cases analysis for the MBA coursework I have completed in my part-time MBA program at GW. This Nordstrom case is actually quite popular in the MBA programs. Not only this blog has been getting quite a bit of traffic from the search queries related to [...]

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Marketing Decisions – Second Module Kickoff at GW MBA

October 24, 2010

As I mentioned in my previous post, I had an early start for my Fall Module II at GW part-time MBA program this week. Professor wanted to review the major points of the previous course – Nature of Markets, as it is the foundation for the upcoming class. The second major point of an early start was give [...]

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First Module GW Part-time MBA – Finals Week

October 20, 2010

This week was the end of the first Fall module in GW MBA program. I had my final in Financial Markets class on Tuesday. Of the ten questions, there was one (on spot rates, forward rate) which I had to retreat to Chinese approach, i.e “write everything that crosses your mind, and let professor choose [...]

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Case Study of SG Cowen: New Recruits – Business Case Studies Update

October 12, 2010

Just a short note on the update I made to Business School Cases section of my blog. It seems with the school year moving forward at full speed my blog has been getting more visits from inquiries related to business case studies. Judging by the number of hits from those inquiries I gather that SG [...]

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Appreciative Inquiry in Management Consulting

October 10, 2010

This week in my Consultative Processes class we had a guest speaker from management consulting company which utilizes an approach not so common in management consulting business and organizational improvement in general. This approach is called Appreciative Inquiry. Basically, the difference between the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and traditional approach is that AI focuses on the [...]

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Consultative Processes – Group Project Progress

October 3, 2010

Updated September 24, 2011. I placed an introduction and background & understanding sections of the Consulting Proposal Letter to Kacey Fine Furniture in the Business School Cases of this blog. In my Consultative Processes class at GW part-time MBA program we are going to complete two group projects: Writing and Presenting Proposal and Writing and [...]

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Group Projects Lamentations – Not Only MBA

September 15, 2010

“I hate group projects. They send you paper at 10.30 PM and expect you to be able to do something with it.”  This is not from me. This is a quote from my daughter, who is at high school, last night around midnight. Apparently she was tasked with tying down, formatting and editing the individual [...]

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Consulting Panel, Consulting Interview Hints

September 9, 2010
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Wednesday class in Consultative Processes was very interesting. First we had a panel of four consultants currently working for some of the very well known and not so widely known consulting companies: Pricewaterhouse Cooper (PWC), Deloitte, North Highland, Grant Thornton. In spite of the fact that the image of a consultant sometimes is more readily associated [...]

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Consultative Processes – Intro to Consulting Business

September 1, 2010

Today I had the first class in my elective course – Consultative Processes. From the syllabus and the first class it became obvious that the class is going to be very writing-intensive and group work oriented. We will have to submit three individually prepared cases from Harvard Business Publications. And there will be two group [...]

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Financial Markets – First Class of the Fall Term

August 31, 2010

Today I had my first class in the Fall term – Financial Markets. It was rather interesting and at times even entertaining. Professor had eventually placed syllabus with required textbook earlier today and I was able to order it from Amazon. The book we are using in class is Financial Management: Theory & Practice 13 [...]

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Second Year Part-time MBA Begins

August 30, 2010

Today is the first day of classes at the University and official start of my second year of studies in GWU part-time MBA program. My classes however haven’t started yet. I have my first class on Tuesday. For the first module of the Fall term I have signed up for two classes: Financial Markets and [...]

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First Year Part-time MBA Closure

July 24, 2010

Have not been posting for almost a month. Now I am kind of have been missing blogging and ready to post some updates. The two main reasons for my extended silence are the preparation for the professional certification exam that I took in two weeks after the end of the summer module, and the family vacation [...]

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Summer Term MBA Classes are Near to Close

June 18, 2010

Have not been able to post lately due to the overwhelming amount of work in business school. As much as I prefer qualititative over the quantitative classes, in terms of time it is not really easier. In quants it takes me a lot of time to comprehend the concepts and their application. In qualititative classes [...]

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Nature of Markets – Introduction to Marketing

May 20, 2010

Tonight I had my second class that I am taking in this Summer Term at part-time MBA program at GWSB. I have been looking forward to this course and it seems that my high expectations will be met in this class. I have long been interested in marketing and I really expect to learn a [...]

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Business and Public Policy – Part-time MBA Summer Term Begins

May 18, 2010

Updated July 31, 2011. Overtime I posted my wrtie-ups for case analyses in this class in Business School Cases section of the blog. Today I placed a final case analysis from the class on Soda Tax Issues. I had the first class in my summer term tonight: Business and Public Policy. I can tell from the class [...]

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George Washington University School of Business-Financial Times Rankings

January 27, 2010

Today in Global Perspectives class professor was seemingly glowing when he broke a news. Turned out that Financial Times published their Global MBA Rankings 2010 just two days ago on January 25. MBA program at GWSB climbed from position 71 to 57 among top 100 MBA programs worldwide. What he was even more proud of was that in [...]

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Part-time MBA Winter Break Summary

January 10, 2010

This was the last weekend before the start of the Spring semester in my part-time MBA studies. So I might as well call it the end of the winter break. Classes start on Monday, though for me personally the first day of classes is Wednesday – Global Perspectives. Just a short recap of what I [...]

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Business School News Sources

November 30, 2009

These days I do not really have time to read news about the Business Schools developments a lot. I still skim the headlines and read semi-regualarly. Now I am more concerned with my immediate MBA environment. But when I was in my preparation stage for part-time MBA I was more hungry for that kind of news and [...]

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Quants and MBA Anxiety

November 16, 2009

This past Wednesday when I left my class in Financial Accounting I had a sheer anxiety attack. It was not a panic attack yet, as there are no half-term finals for at least another 4 weeks. But it was really very scary.  This was not based only on my feelings of inadequacy from the class in [...]

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Brand New Laptop for Freshly-Minted MBA Student

November 2, 2009

This weekend I finally bought my personal laptop. I was originally thinking to hold off a purchase till I get a passing grade for my second class – Financial Accounting. But with the homework requirement in my Judgment, Uncertainty and Decisions (JUD) class to use not just Excel, but also a special proprietary add-in for [...]

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Business Ethics – a Softer Side of MBA Program

October 29, 2009

Today I had my first class in Business Ethics in this half-term. The class is shaping up to be a pretty soft one compared to the other two. One thing which is different about this class from any other I have taken so far is that it has no in-class final exam. Actually I take [...]

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Financial Accounting II – MBA immersion

October 28, 2009

Today I had my first class in Financial Accounting II. I have different professor from my previous Fin Accounting course. And she is really very different: very sharp, to the point, very well organized. Her lecture, like the whole course, was very well prepared and laid out. And she was giving clear explanation to the [...]

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Financial Accounting-I in the Hindsight

October 25, 2009

Over the weekend I had some spare time, namely sitting at the lounge for two hours on Friday and Sunday, while my younger daughter was having public skating sessions. I spent that time reading up the materials on my Financial Accounting I (the exam for which I already took on Wednesday). I knew that some of [...]

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